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Authorities still searching for suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota state lawmakers

June 14, 2025

By TIM SULLIVAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — Hundreds of law officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as a police officer and fatally... Read More

US helps Israel shoot down barrage of Iranian missiles

June 13, 2025

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American air defense systems and Navy assets in the Middle East helped Israel shoot down incoming ballistic missiles Friday that Tehran launched in response to Israeli strikes on... Read More

Oil prices leap 6% and stocks slip on worries about what will happen to the crude market

June 13, 2025

By STAN CHOE, DAVID McHUGH and JIANG JUNZHE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are leaping, and stocks are slipping Friday on worries that Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets could escalate further and damage the... Read More

What's targeted in Trump's request for $9.4 billion in budget cuts from Congress

June 12, 2025

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is looking to cancel $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress. That’s just a sliver of the $1.7 trillion that lawmakers OK’d for the budget year ending Sept.... Read More

EPA set to roll back rules that limit greenhouse gases and mercury from US power plants

June 11, 2025

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to eliminate rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, part of a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations that... Read More

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys visionary leader and summer's poet laureate, dies at 82

June 11, 2025

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most... Read More

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee

June 10, 2025

By LAURA UNGAR and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to... Read More

Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops

June 9, 2025

  By JASON DEAREN, JAIMIE DING and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tensions in Los Angeles escalated Sunday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National... Read More

Trump asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans

June 3, 2025

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and... Read More

FBI says 8 injured in Colorado attack by man with makeshift flamethrower who yelled 'Free Palestine'

June 2, 2025

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man with a makeshift flamethrower yelled “Free Palestine” and hurled an incendiary device into a group that had assembled to raise attention for Israeli hostages in Gaza,... Read More

Trump honors fallen soldiers at Arlington, calling them 'America's best and bravest'

May 26, 2025

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump honored fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, calling them “great, great warriors” who were “America’s best and bravest.” “We... Read More

Trump signs executive orders to boost nuclear power, speed up approvals

May 23, 2025

By MATTHEW DALY and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed executive orders Friday intended to quadruple domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years, a goal experts say the United States is highly... Read More

The NBA's final 4 is set: Thunder, Knicks, Wolves and Pacers remain, and parity reigns again

May 19, 2025

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The parity era continues in the NBA. The New York Knicks haven’t won an NBA championship since 1973. The Indiana Pacers won their most recent title that year — in the ABA. The Oklahoma... Read More

Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer

May 19, 2025

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday. The finding came after the 82-year-old reported urinary symptoms, which led doctors to discover a nodule on his... Read More

Trump is in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of his 4-day Mideast trip

May 13, 2025

By The Associated Press  President Donald Trump was in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the first leg of his three-nation visit to the Middle East this week meant to tackle multiple crises and conflicts across the region. He was welcomed by... Read More

House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts that Democrats warn will leave millions without care

May 12, 2025

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion... Read More

Soviet-era spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit

May 10, 2025

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European Union Space Surveillance... Read More

Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV

May 8, 2025

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, the American Robert Prevost, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.” From the loggia of... Read More

White smoke pours out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling the election of a new pope

May 8, 2025

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Church... Read More

Homeland Security chief says travelers with no REAL ID can fly for now, but with likely extra steps

May 6, 2025

By REBECCA SANTANA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Travelers who haven’t obtained a REAL ID by this week’s deadline received assurances from the head of Homeland Security that they will be able to fly after additional... Read More